I'm reading this to my teenage granddaughters tomorrow. It will start a lively discussion, no doubt about it. However, I'm just a lone voice in the wilderness.
There is a sad belief among some Christians, including some LDS, that Christ came to excuse all bad behavior. He did not. Christ came as the only acceptable sacrifice for all of the sins of mankind. The Left has weaponized people’s empathy, and the average person doesn’t understand how he has been played. The Left now dominates the union known as Big Education, and every child and teen that has not been well grounded by their parents will fall prey to all of their simplistic so-called solutions to the country’s problems.
Very alarming! But more alarming are reports that many undergraduates entering college have never read any book cover to cover in their lives! Maybe parents need to read books together with even their adolescent offspring to compensate for the gross failures kf public education .
They still exist, just not in the school systems in Salt Lake County. Salt Lake has been taken over by progressivism. We are fighting a judge's ruling that we have to go to a map she has drawn that creates a majority Democrat district, all of Salt Lake County is in it and in square miles, it looks big but most of it is uninhabited BLM land.
This starts as an authentic-sounding story but devolves into a reductionist spewage of personal opinions that were well solidified long before the alleged 'meeting with a neighbor' took place.
It's certainly true that teens today are being heavily influenced from all directions, and don't generally think through their 'beliefs'. They're overstimulated and they can't focus on any single subject for very long and they're definitely confused. But the same was true (though maybe to a lesser extent) for your generation, and mine.
Conservative fogeys in the '60s thought all the protests for 'civil rights' were ridiculous because 'blacks could afford refrigerators' and that was basically equal. They would've said the same thing you're saying here, citing the fact that most of the kids waving signs in the street didn't know anything about Vietnam and were simply 'jumping on a cultural bandwagon'. In my day, they would've said the same thing about any teen who opposed Bush's war in Iraq. They would've written off protesters for being lost/manipulated/naive, as you've done here.
It's funny how hindsight shifts perspective. Nowadays it's widely agreed upon that those causes were justified and the kids were right along, even if their tactics were undercooked at times.
But the same conservative fogeys always take up the same positions, fighting for the empire.
I'm reading this to my teenage granddaughters tomorrow. It will start a lively discussion, no doubt about it. However, I'm just a lone voice in the wilderness.
There is a sad belief among some Christians, including some LDS, that Christ came to excuse all bad behavior. He did not. Christ came as the only acceptable sacrifice for all of the sins of mankind. The Left has weaponized people’s empathy, and the average person doesn’t understand how he has been played. The Left now dominates the union known as Big Education, and every child and teen that has not been well grounded by their parents will fall prey to all of their simplistic so-called solutions to the country’s problems.
Very alarming! But more alarming are reports that many undergraduates entering college have never read any book cover to cover in their lives! Maybe parents need to read books together with even their adolescent offspring to compensate for the gross failures kf public education .
What happened to good old conservative Mormons???? When,/why did they start drinking Coke? Tea??
They still exist, just not in the school systems in Salt Lake County. Salt Lake has been taken over by progressivism. We are fighting a judge's ruling that we have to go to a map she has drawn that creates a majority Democrat district, all of Salt Lake County is in it and in square miles, it looks big but most of it is uninhabited BLM land.
This starts as an authentic-sounding story but devolves into a reductionist spewage of personal opinions that were well solidified long before the alleged 'meeting with a neighbor' took place.
It's certainly true that teens today are being heavily influenced from all directions, and don't generally think through their 'beliefs'. They're overstimulated and they can't focus on any single subject for very long and they're definitely confused. But the same was true (though maybe to a lesser extent) for your generation, and mine.
Conservative fogeys in the '60s thought all the protests for 'civil rights' were ridiculous because 'blacks could afford refrigerators' and that was basically equal. They would've said the same thing you're saying here, citing the fact that most of the kids waving signs in the street didn't know anything about Vietnam and were simply 'jumping on a cultural bandwagon'. In my day, they would've said the same thing about any teen who opposed Bush's war in Iraq. They would've written off protesters for being lost/manipulated/naive, as you've done here.
It's funny how hindsight shifts perspective. Nowadays it's widely agreed upon that those causes were justified and the kids were right along, even if their tactics were undercooked at times.
But the same conservative fogeys always take up the same positions, fighting for the empire.
Spot on.
Wow. That is telling. Thank you for sharing this story.